Design System Lead & UX Architect

Summit K12; Austin (TX); Sur place; USD 120 000 - 180 000; Plein temps

Avantages offerts par ce poste

Medical, dental, and vision insurance

Company-paid disability and life保险

401(k) retirement plan

10 paid holidays + 1 floating holiday

Résumé du poste

Summit K12 is seeking a Design Lead to own user experience for a product area and co-steward the shared design system, while staying hands-on in Figma daily. This player-coach role partners with Product Managers to bridge design and product teams for cohesive, high-quality outcomes.

You'll ship confidently using AI tools, drive system adoption across teams, and translate platform strategy into consistent navigation and workflows.

Qualifications

• 6+ years in product/UX design, including owning a design system.
• Fluency in Figma and comfort using Jira for design work.
• Active use of AI tools in design workflow, and enthusiasm for operating as an AI‑leveraged, lean design function.
• Strong grounding in user-centered design, interaction design, and Universal Design for Learning.
• A track record of building design cohesion through cross-functional partnership — influence earned, not imposed.
• Comfort operating in a fast-moving environment: shipping without waiting for perfect data, with limited resources and tight timelines.
• Experience designing SaaS or platform-based products
• A single, consistently applied design system across all products
• Product Managers seek out design partnership because it makes their features better and faster to ship

Responsabilités

• Maintain and evolve the Summit K12 design system — components, patterns, typography, color, accessibility standards, and interaction behaviors
• Keep the system documented, versioned, and genuinely used, so teams move faster with it than without it
• Drive adoption — you and your fellow Design Leads share accountability for the system actually being used across teams, reducing UX fragmentation through enablement and reusable patterns rather than policing
• Decide, jointly with your fellow Design Leads, what enters the system and when projects in your area can deviate from it, escalating consequential additions, cross-product deviations, and any calls the leads can't align on.
• Act as a design consultant and force multiplier to Product Managers — in a world where a PM can spin up an AI prototype in an afternoon, you're the one who makes it shippable: coherent, accessible, and on-system
• Make the case for design through outcomes — demonstrate how strong UX reduces rework, support burden, and churn
• Be the Design Lead your teams trust for day-to-day design calls
• Spend real time in Figma — this is a shipping role, not a pure oversight role
• Translate platform experience strategy into concrete, consistent navigation, workflows, and interaction patterns across all user types
• Claude, v0, Figma AI) to accelerate design and development workflows
• Integrate Universal Design for Learning (UDL) principles into the design system so interaction patterns work for the full range of learner abilities
• Set clear expectations for quality, ownership, and accountability
• Run lean design workflows in Figma and Jira that support fast iteration and predictable delivery

Connaissances

Design system ownership

Figma proficiency

AI-assisted design

User-centered design

Cross-functional collaboration

SaaS/platform design

Jira usage

Outils

Jira

Description du poste

Summit K12 is seeking a Design Lead to own user experience for a product area and co-steward the shared design system, while staying hands-on in Figma daily. This player-coach role partners with Product Managers to bridge design and product teams for cohesive, high-quality outcomes.

You'll ship confidently using AI tools, drive system adoption across teams, and translate platform strategy into consistent navigation and workflows.